Injuries Quote by James Anderson

I don't think longevity gets enough credit when you're talking about a player.

— Paul Coffey

You never know how long a player has left, especially with strikers. Once you turn 30, as a striker, you are usually on the…

— Gary Lineker

Some players have 18 years in football. But some players are injured before they start. When I thought like that I said: 'If I…

— Marco van Basten

The lifespan of players like myself is usually not a very long one.

— Matthew Slater

Any player over 40-50 games per season will have moments of fatigue, let alone a 22-year-old who has a lot to learn on how…

— Massimiliano Allegri

I don't think age has as much to do with how long you play as conditioning.

— Mike Webster

The lifespan of most professional athletes is relatively short, and most have no preparation for doing anything after their career ends, which it could…

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I know a lot of athletes, they want to play until their 45 or 50 or whatever, some athletes claim, but count me out on that.

— Joey Votto

How many players can say they played 26 years? Nobody.

— George Blanda

When you're an athlete and you play every day and are conditioning yourself every year, the aging is gradual.

— Cal Ripken, Jr

If a player is 20 or 21 and sits on the bench for two or three years, I don't know if that's useful.

— Joachim Low

When you're younger, you have three or four bad results and you worry about everything. You worry about injuries, because they always seem to…

— Neil Warnock